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Blair Hints At British Euro
Referendum by 2004

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that his government will examine the economic case to join the euro within two years of winning the next General Election. Analysts took this as a hint that a British referendum to join the European single currency could be called in 2004 at the earliest.

Defence Cuts Pose Threat
To World Peace

Shadow Defence Secretary Iain Duncan Smith revealed that the European Union's defence budget has been cut by at least 20 per cent. With stockpiles of chemical, nuclear and biological weapons, potential warheads for Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, now in the hands of countries like Libya and even Iraq, he argued that these cuts pose a threat to world peace.

Source: BBC News On-line

A year before euro notes and coins will be launched, a survey by five European newspapers recently showed eurozone support for single currency is at a low ebb. Yet the European economy has stepped ahead of the US. Even so the British, and particularly the Irish, ministers were rebuked over spending by other EU finance ministers. Clearly the pro and anti-euro camps had something each to back up their own arguments.

EMU Comment Forum:
A Summary of Email News

In this section the European Movement counters the eurosceptical view that the Eurozone's economy is weak. While the Democracy Movement focuses on the forthcoming General Election, and rethinks its campaign strategy following the eurosceptic's defeat on the BBC's "Referendum Street."

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